Just the Facts

• Our firm was founded in 1907 
• Our Managing Partner is John Brown. Phone: 604.895.2803
• We are a member of the international legal network TAGLaw

The numbers

• Harper Grey has been ranked by Lexpert as one of the top 5 litigation firms in British Columbia for more than 10 years.
• Lexpert has also ranked six of our lawyers among the top 500 in Canada (2010). 
• Our legal staff is comprised of 55 lawyers and 14 paralegals
• Over 90% of our lawyers practice litigation exclusively
• We have 85 support staff including researchers, librarians and IT specialists
• Percentage of female lawyers to male lawyers: 35% women lawyers
• Number of languages spoken: 21 including English, French, Cantonese, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Mandarin, Portugese, Polish, Punjabi, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, and American Sign Language.

What’s in a name?

• Our firm name stands for two former partners of the firm: Arthur Harper and Harvey Grey. Mr. Harper was a founding member of the Law Foundation of British Columbia.

In the Courtroom

• Number of judgements issued by the British Columbia Supreme Court with Harper Grey as counsel since 2000: 526
• Number of reported decisions at the BC Court of Appeal since 1997: 196
• Number of civil cases heard before the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in the last decade: 13
• Most recent appearance before the SCC: Attorney General of British Columbia v. Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, 2008.